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The World Stage

What is happening in the world right now? In this podcast produced by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) we"ll take a closer look at events taking place around the globe. Here you will find conversations, seminars and lectures on different international topics. We hope you"ll learn something new!For our Norwegian-speaking audience, we also recommend our podcast series Utenrikshospitalet and Hvor hender det?.If you have any feedback or tips, please contact us on post@nupi.no

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33:49

AI and Geopolitics

The World Stage ·

2023/08/09

How should we regulate AI? How will AI impact the power balance between the US and China? And how does Microsoft navigate this complex landscape? In this episode, Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft, shares his unique insights on these questions and more. He is joined by CEO of NBIM (Norges Bank Investment Management) Nicolay Tangen and NUPI Director Ulf Sverdrup. This episode is released in collaboration with NBIM Podcast 'In Good Company':

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28:40

The UN Secretary-General’s New Agenda for Peace: What...

The World Stage ·

2023/06/08

What issues are likely to be covered in the Agenda for Peace?Why is it important?UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has called for a ‘New Agenda for Peace’ that can help the United Nations and international community address the many complex challenges the world faces today.In this edition of the World Stage podcast, NUPI’s Cedric de Coning is in conversation with Asif Khan, the Director of the Policy and Mediation Division of the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs of the United

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37:10

The ugly duckling of the foreign services

The World Stage ·

2023/06/05

Visiting prisoners, assisting lost travellers and distressed expats. Consular work is often considered the ugly duckling of the foreign services, far away from the negotiating tables and corridors of power. Still, the duties of the consuls also include dramatic crises evacuations, such as the recent dramatic extractions of diplomats and foreign nationals from Sudan.Ian Kemish has a rich career in the the Australian Foreign Service, including as head of the consular service. His experiences from the

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41:41

UN peace operations and the political economy of...

The World Stage ·

2023/05/25

UN peace operations are overwhelmingly deployed within societies fractured by civil war. To understand why the UN has encountered difficulties, operational and political, in these settings, one must understand the political economy of civil war.These informal networks of power and their consequences for efforts to end wars and build lasting peace, are examined this episode of The World Stage.Professors Mats Berdal (King’s College London), Jana Krause (University of Oslo), and Cedric de Coning (NUPI)

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34:52

Understanding the roots of Kurdish resilience to...

The World Stage ·

2023/04/27

What are the reasons behind the limited impact of violent extremism and the Islamic State in the Kurdistan region of Iraq? In this episode of the NUPI podcast The World Stage, Dlawer Ala’Aldeen (Middle East Research Institute), Juline Beaujouan (University of Edinbrugh & Open Think Tank) and Morten Bøås (NUPI) are standing at the top of the citadel of Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq to discuss this topic.This podcast is part of the PREVEX project. The project has received funding from the

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27:38

Locating missing persons in Ukraine

The World Stage ·

2023/04/25

How do you find missing persons in the midst of war?Kathryne Bomberger, Director-General of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), explains how her organisation investigate cases, search for, and identify missing persons in wartime Ukraine. The conversation is hosted by NUPI researcher Tora Berge Naterstad and produced as part of theRUSSNETTproject. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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41:40

Norway’s work on climate, peace, and security in the...

The World Stage ·

2023/04/24

Climate security was one of Norway’s priority areas during its period as an elected member of the UN Security Council (2021–2022). What did Norway achieve?Hans Olav Ibrekk, Norway’s Special Envoy for Climate, Peace and Security, and Florian Krampe, director of the Climate Change and Risk Programme at SIPRI, take stock on Norway’s effort and lessons learned for others that will be working on this agenda in the future. Cedric de Coning, Research Professor at NUPI, is hosting the conversation. Hosted

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48:45

Russia-West relations before, in and after the war on...

The World Stage ·

2023/03/31

Was there ever a deal to be had with Putin before the war? Is Russia mainly motivated by domestic or foreign policy considerations? And is there anything Western leaders can do to win hearts and minds in Russia?In this episode of The World Stage, Kadri Liik, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, and Julie Wilhelmsen, research professor at NUPI, discuss Russia-West relations before, in and after the war in Ukraine. The episode was produced as part of theRUSSNETTproject

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44:13

How to engage with China?

The World Stage ·

2023/03/31

In this episode of The World stage, Rana Mitter, Professor at the University of Oxford, and Bjørnar Sverdrup-Thygeson, Senior Research Fellow at NUPI,will first give an overview of China’s key domestic issues, before analysing Beijing’s foreign policy goals.Norway has a lot of experience dealing with The Soviet Union, and later, Russia, but China is a very different kind of actor. How should we politically position ourselves with a state that combines authoritarian governance with a historically

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37:25

The emergence of Non-Western and Global International...

The World Stage ·

2023/03/30

In this episode of the World Stage podcast, NUPI’s Cedric de Coning is in conversation with Amitav Acharya and Stein Tønnesson on the emergence of non-Western and Global International Relations.The discipline came into being as an academic field during the past half-century when the US and its Western allies were the driving force behind globalization and the establishment of the global governance architecture. As a result, IR scholarship was mostly pre-occupied with international relations from a

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18:17

How to make UN peace operations more effective?

The World Stage ·

2023/03/28

The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has set a process in motion to re-think the UN’s role in peace and security in the current global context. A team in the UN Secretariat is currently drafting a policy think piece called the New Agenda for Peace, which will be one of several thematic areas that will be considered at the 2024 Summit of the Future.The ‘old’ Agenda for Peace was a major policy document that was produced under UN Secretary-GeneralBoutros Boutros-Ghaliin 1992. It framed the way

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25:29

Security realities of freezing politics and thawing...

The World Stage ·

2023/02/17

Russia’s re-invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has had immediate and ongoing effects for Arctic security and cooperative governance at both a regional and international level. The region is impacted by the increased sanctions, the withdrawal of Western companies from Russia, the Western disconnect from energy dependencies, and has also witnessed an increase in hybrid security incidents.In addition, climate change continues at to change the environment at a staggering pace in the north.In a new report from

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31:31

Russian youth, war, and independent journalists in exile

The World Stage ·

2023/02/10

The Russian online magazine DOXA is this year's winner of the Norwegian Student Peace Prize. The committee highlights their work exposing corruption and sexual harassment at universities, documenting state persecution, and fighting government disinformation, as well as their uncompromising reporting on Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Because of the development in the political situation in Russia over the last years, the magazine now works through a network of editors who live in exile,

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34:33

Rethinking radicalisation and resilience in Mali and...

The World Stage ·

2023/01/11

What does resilience against radicalisation and violent extremism look like in Mali and the Sahel? And which drivers are present for the spread of extremism?In this episode of the NUPI podcast The World Stage, Abdoul Wakhab Cissé (ARGA) and Morten Bøås (NUPI) are sitting at the bed of the river Niger. This mighty waterway floats from the high plains of Guinea through Mali and Niger before it makes its way to the Atlantic Ocean through Nigeria. They are discussing the manifestation of violent

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22:57

Putin’s potential headache: The anti-mobilization...

The World Stage ·

2022/11/30

After Vladimir Putin’s announcement of the partial mobilization of the war in Ukraine in September, people, and in particular women, took to the streets in several of the republics in the North Caucasus. They protested this mobilization, saying that this war was one they couldn’t agree sending their sons into. Even if these demonstrations on an international scale were quite small, and that they ended almost as quickly as they emerged, the protests can be seen as a sign of an increasing discontent

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21:46

Abkhazia between Russia and the outside world

The World Stage ·

2022/11/01

De facto states - states that have failed to win international recognition - have long been understudied 'blank spots,' overlooked in academic literature and on maps. However, they play critical and contentious roles in international politics: Since the end of the Cold War, de facto states have been involved in a disproportionately large number of violent conflicts, resulting in their establishment, change of status, or elimination.In this episode of the NUPI podcast 'The World Stage', we turn our

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35:32

The next migration crisis: Is the EU better prepared?

The World Stage ·

2022/10/17

In this podcast episode we take a closer look on how the EU will handle a new migration crisis. A new wave of mass migration to Europe might be building up according to several indicators. Is the EU better prepared now than during the refugee crisis in 2015? Or could this looming crisis be a new threat to the EU that will come on top of the war in Europe? How will that affect the European unity that we have been witnessing faced with the war in Ukraine?Listen in as Research Professor Pernille Rieker

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35:56

Bridging or dividing people? A conversation about...

The World Stage ·

2022/10/06

In this podcast episode we’ll take a closer look at the relationship between the different ethnic groups in Mostar after the Balkan wars.What influences the resilience of different population groups to radicalization and violent extremism?One of the case study areas in the EU-funded PREVEX project is the Balkans. In this episode of the NUPI podcast The World Stage, we are zooming in on Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The famous bridge in Mostar represents a symbolic background for the social

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28:55

How important are traditional values for Putin’s...

The World Stage ·

2022/09/23

How important are traditional values for Putin’s support? How are they related to the war in Ukraine? And what does the future look like for the Putin regime?In the last decade, Russian authorities have adopted a strongly antiliberal rhetoric with attacks on Western secularism, multiculturalism, and alleged moral decay. This rhetoric has been followed up with new laws against blasphemy and “propaganda of non-traditional sexual orientations among minors”, decriminalization of wife battery, etc.In

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30:44

Most people aren’t radicalized

The World Stage ·

2022/08/25

Why are some communities more likely to experience violent extremism than others? And why do most people living in enabling environments stay clear of radicalization?These are two of the core questions of the NUPI led EU project PREVEX that is now in its third year of research. In this episode of The World Stage, Marie Furhovden has invited three of the researchers involved in this project; Diana Mishkova, Luca Raineri and Stéphane Lacroix to give a run through of the findings in the project so

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